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The bodies of six hostages kidnapped on October 7 during the Hamas attack in Israel have been found in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army confirmed on Sunday 1is September. In the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army is continuing for the fifth day a vast operation against armed groups, three Israeli policemen were killed in a “armed attack”according to law enforcement. In the Gaza Strip, an Israeli bombing left eleven dead in a school at the end of the day, according to the local civil defense.
“The Army and the Shin Bet [sécurité intérieure] yesterday located and recovered the bodies of hostages Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino from a tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip.”the Israeli army wrote in a statement. US President Joe Biden had previously announced the discovery of the six bodies, including that of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, saying ” devastated “.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the hostages had been “killed in cold blood by Hamas just before we got to them”Speaking about Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu said that “He who kills hostages does not want an agreement” ceasefire and prisoner exchange. “We will pursue you, we will catch you and we will settle the score with you.”he said to Hamas leaders.
“The six hostages were killed by Hamas terrorists with several shots at point-blank range.”wrote Shira Solomon, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health in a statement. “The deaths likely occurred approximately forty-eight to seventy-two hours before the examination. [d’autopsie]between Thursday and Friday morning »she adds.
Ezzat Rishq, a senior Hamas figure, had previously blamed the Jewish state for the hostages’ deaths. “because he persists in continuing his genocidal war (…) and to oppose any ceasefire agreement”.
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Call for general strike
“A deal for the return of the hostages has been on the table for two months. Without the delays, sabotage and pretexts, those whose deaths we learned of this morning would certainly still be alive.”the Hostages’ Families Forum got carried away.
The Histadrut, Israel’s powerful trade union center, has decreed a “general strike” for Monday to force the government to reach an agreement to release the hundred hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We must stop this abandonment of hostages (…). Tomorrow at 6am the entire Israeli economy will be on general strike”Histadrut leader Arnon Bar-David said at a press conference on Sunday.
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Joe Biden has promised to continue “to work around the clock to reach an agreement that guarantees the release of the remaining hostages”. “I think we are close to reaching an agreement”he added.
Israel’s war following the October 7 attack has killed at least 40,691 people in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run enclave’s health ministry, and has sparked a humanitarian and health crisis.
Twenty-four Palestinians killed in West Bank since Wednesday
The Israeli army is also continuing a major operation against armed groups that began on Wednesday in the north of the occupied West Bank, which has sparked protests from the international community.
In the south of the territory, three Israeli police officers, including a woman, were killed on Sunday during a “armed attack”according to the Israeli police commander. This act has not been claimed but Hamas saw it “a natural response to the massacres of the people” Palestinian.
Two Palestinians were also killed in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry announced.
Since the launch of these Israeli raids, during which tanks and bulldozers destroyed many streets and electricity, water and telecommunications networks, particularly in Jenin and in several refugee camps, at least twenty-four Palestinians have been killed, according to the ministry. According to the Israeli army, all were “terrorists”Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2007, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad reported fourteen deaths in their ranks.
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Eleven dead in Israeli strike, according to Civil Defense
In the Gaza Strip, the civil defense reported eleven deaths in the bombing of a school housing dozens of displaced families. “An Israeli strike on the Safad school where refugees were sheltering in Gaza City left eleven people dead, including a woman and a girl, and dozens injured”civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told Agence France-Presse. The Israeli military, for its part, said it targeted “Hamas terrorists operating from a control center in an area that was previously the Safad school”.
A polio vaccination campaign has also begun in the centre of the territory, according to the head of three vaccination centres for children in the area. “There is a significant drone flight over the center of the Gaza Strip and we hope that this vaccination campaign for children will take place calmly”added Dr. Yasser Chaabane, medical director of Al-Awda hospital, interviewed by AFP.
Already on Saturday, polio vaccinations were administered at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, but it was not until Sunday that the campaign was officially launched, which is to administer a first dose of two drops to ingest, to 640,000 children under the age of 10. Polio was eradicated twenty-five years ago in the enclave.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that Israel had agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” of three days for each of the phases. Denying “reports of a general ceasefire” To enable this campaign, Mr Netanyahu’s office has indicated that Israel will allow “only a humanitarian corridor”.
Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, the Civil Defense reported two dead and six injured after a house was shelled in Gaza City.
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